Local authorities have stopped aid workers from distributing high-protein biscuits, in some cases, on the main route the refugees are following.

Or United Nations trucks full of high-protein biscuits or corn-soya porridge might.

Ms. Uhram feeds the roaches crushed high-protein biscuits sold under the brand name "Monkey Chow."

Relief workers said they hoped to bring in high-protein biscuits until they could arrange for a caravan of trucks to take the Rwandans to the main camp.

A second flight with 30 tonnes of the high-protein biscuits was scheduled to leave Pisa for Entebbe on Thursday, the statement said.

There were high-protein biscuits from Australia on sale in the market, alongside beans, oil and other food donated by European countries.

Aid workers distributed high-protein biscuits to women and children and began setting up latrines and tents.

Now they have access to fewer than 3,000, and relief workers, unable to get to their food warehouses on the front lines, have been able to distribute only high-protein biscuits.

The three caterers served soup, a basic stew, and high-protein biscuits.

Included in the supplies were high-protein biscuits, high-protein vitamins, medicine, tents, blankets and refrigeration equipment.